She has been teaching Ed and Graham how to fly down a bob track in St Moritz and she also meets one of Team GB's best hopes to follow in her footsteps and win gold in Sochi,
short-track speed skater Elise Christie.

The first show comes from St Anton in Austria and focuses on the women's downhill. All eyes will be on the great Lindsey Vonn to see if she will continue to dominate downhill racing. Number one British skier Chemmy Alcott continues her comeback from a
horrific broken leg two years ago
and will be desperate for World Cup points.

Two classics follow on two iconic mountains - Switzerland's Wengen Lauberhorn and the infamous Kitzbuehel Hahnenkamm in Austria before the team decamps to Moscow for an exciting new race. A man-made slalom course built in the centre of the Russian capital with skiers racing side by side, under floodlights in front of thousands of fans.

Ed Leigh meets Travis Rice (above), the leading free rider in the world, in the new series.

Schladming in Austria hosts this year's World Championships, a wonderful prequel to next year's Winter Olympics, and you will be able to see every race on the red button and the website as well as the major races on BBC Two and the BBC HD channel.

The series finishes in Meribel, the first time Ski Sunday will come to this famous French resort for the blue riband women's downhill.

As well the alpine skiing, there are plenty of other winter sports in the programme. Ed Leigh has travelled to the far reaches of Alaska and goes behind the scenes with the most famous snowboard film makers in the world. He also catches up with the great Travis Rice, the leading free rider in the world as well as Tom Burt, one of the pioneers of the sport.

And Ed and Graham will be trying to rediscover their youth as they get taught a few tricks from the freestylers reinventing winter sport in the UK.

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